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by rchaud 1y ago
agreed. starting off with a giant ad for some AI-something-or-other was bad enough, but the design makes it hard to visually scan for where the article starts.
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by rchaud 1y ago
> but isn't part of the appeal of Substack discoverability? Discoverability should be happening on non-paid platforms like social media, message boards or channels independent of Substack itself. If customer acquisition is based on
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by rchaud 1y ago
People have made money on the Internet for decades before Substack. Ask your customers to mail you a cheque, or send them a Paypal/Venmo/Cashapp payment and manually process their subscription. People will understand that you&#x27
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by rchaud 1y ago
Apple's advertising campaign "there's an app for that" during the 2010s has liquefied an entire generation's brains into thinking they need to download an app for something that displays words and pictures. Like mos
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Intel won't be allowed to go under, that was part of the goal of the CHIPS act.
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Reading can also include commenting, such as on The Verge article that's pictured, or on this very site.
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by rchaud 1y ago
Yep, I had several Blackberrys and hated the Passport's weird, ramrod-straight 3 rows of keys. Much less ergonomic to type on than the slightly curved 4-row setup on the Bold 9000 (2008), which they never reproduced on future models.
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by rchaud 1y ago
Nice website that focuses on the simple basics of setting up one's own infrastructure, like it was back in the '90s. Disagree with the "land ownership" portion of the title as it will be obvious to anybody following the
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by rchaud 1y ago
> A solar panel bench with wireless charging in a random small town in Yunnan anyone? Did anyone else see the picture and immediately think that this design wouldn't be possible in the west because it didn't have any anti-homel
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by rchaud 1y ago
It's not most phones, just the high end ones, Galaxy S series, Galaxy Z Fold Series, Tab S series and the A90 phone.
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A phone OS is not a hobby project. Just because something is open source doesn't mean there are no development costs.
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They don't have the manpower to drop off some USA-bound boxes at the same shipping carrier they use for their EU deliveries? I highly doubt that. They likely don't want to bother with FCC approval, opposition from Google about sel
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by rchaud 1y ago
That's my point. Who is going to create a company to compete with Google and Apple on the smartphone front? They already ran everybody else out of business (Palm WebOS, BlackberryOS, Windows Phone). The alternatives are already here bu
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by rchaud 1y ago
Non-certified phones won't be sold in Western markets. This whole scheme has one goal only, and that's to snuff out DRM-unfriendly third party apps like alternative Youtube clients, videogame emulators and P2P file sharing apps.
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by rchaud 1y ago
Yes. A decision like this creates the impetus to move to alternatives like Jolla OS that have an Android-compatible layer. 20 years in, the so-called "smartphone" duopoly have jointly converged towards a "dumb terminal"
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by rchaud 1y ago
Google's stated reason for doing this says nothing about it being for market reasons, but rather for "security".
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by rchaud 1y ago
that's one way of bringing Mexican jobs to America.
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by rchaud 1y ago
and as the experience of every democratic developing country has shown, all this will do is create a new layer of corruption where smuggled goods will be let in for a bribe, while the infant industry strategy largely falls flat due to the a
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by rchaud 1y ago
Stocks going down you say? Not to worry, Uncle Sam will graciously buy your shares on the open market to keep them from dropping further.
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Uber and Doordash count as "jobs" in the employment rolls. That's fine for people like you and me who probably have full time jobs with benefits and look at employment numbers from the angle of "how does this affect the
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by rchaud 1y ago
Disposable income is income after taxes. Discretionary income, which is what I specified, is income that remains after the necessities of life have been paid for.
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by rchaud 1y ago
The future is gloomy because the American economy has largely been in a state of "jobless recovery" since thr great recession. Stock prices are up thanks to corporate tax cuts, ZIRP, AI hype etc, but discretionary income is either
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by rchaud 1y ago
I'd sooner get a Chinese phone that isn't "Google-certified" than reward this behaviour by giving $1000+ to the DRM OGs at Cupertino. Neither Apple nor Google are protecting users against the alleged data-stealing evils
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by rchaud 1y ago
GrapheneOS can only be installed on Pixel devices, no? Hard to see Google not putting in a way to block that on their own hardware.
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by rchaud 1y ago
> Youtube answered the report telling me they've reviewed and found nothing wrong. In other words, their Google Ads account is fully paid up. Copyright infringement only matters if you're a lowly uploader.
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by rchaud 1y ago
Yeah I would, if "Internet" came with zero safeguards or regulations and corporations put the onus on the user to sift through mountains of spam or mitigate credit card leakage risks when buying something online.
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by rchaud 1y ago
Selling exclusively on Google Play, which doesn't have these digital Berlin-walls. Or crazier still, distributing a web app through their website. Apple didn't invent payment processing.
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by rchaud 1y ago
The iPad wasn't positioned to be a productivity device though. The $499 price was a surprise, but only because all the online chatter was guessing $999. It was at best a Kindle/Youtube/Netflix device. The marketing for iPad t
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by rchaud 1y ago
How can a story about US visas be off topic when YC itself posts a visa AMA with their immigration lawyer several times a year?
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There is no way 55 million visas can be reviewed in any reasonable amount of time (cue the "AI can do it" comments). The number of H1B visa holders is a tiny fraction of 55m, if they cared about reviewing those, it'd require

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